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It takes patience to fly cheaply to Africa to start our Overlanding Adventure in 2018

Aug 15, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: #NikelaAfrica, Nikela Blog Tagged: Adventure begins, airplane flight, Dallas to Johannesburg, Qatar

Travel criteria from the USA to Africa includes: cheap flights, few stop overs, reputable airline, low overall travel time and decent service. This year it was tough to accommodate all of these. If fly cheaply is a must, what others are we willing to let go? This year it definitely is travel time. Our journey begins in Dallas, Texas. A direct fourteen hour international flight takes us via Qatar Airways to Doha, Qatar. There, in the world’ fifth best airport, we endure a nine hour layover. Actually, it isn’t that bad. At least not as bad as we anticipated. After…

Update on Seven Wildlife Heroes to Watch This Year 2018 Part 2

Aug 9, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: Baye, Bird of prey sanctuary, Free to be Wild, Nikela Blog, rhino calf, rhino poaching, Shannon Tagged: Baye Pigors, Bearded Vulture, Natalie Rogers, orphaned rhino calf, rescue rehab center, Shannon Hoffman

Last week in Part 1 of our update of wildlife heroes to watch this year we brought you four. A quick recap… Back in January 2018 we invited you to watch Five Wildlife Heroes making a difference for African animals. This group of five grew to seven. Their work ranges from saving wild lions from irate farmers in Tanzania to protecting elephants and their forest in Malawi. In the last seven months much has been accomplished, some sadly has been lost, but all in all, with your support many have been helped. Of course, more is still needed to keep the…

Overlanding Africa in a Land Rover Defender to Save Wildlife VIDEO PLAYLIST 2016-2017

Aug 2, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: #NikelaAfrica, Living in a Landy, Nikela Blog, Ride along Tagged: #NikelaAfrica, 2016-2017, Africa Tour, Land Rover, Overlanding Africa

Care to ride along online? Sign up for periodic News from the Bush VIDEOS – South Africa to Kenya and Back – 2016-2017 Securing the important documents. Border crossings. Fabulous wildlife. Amazing people saving African animals. And some unexpected breakdowns and other mishaps along the way. Enjoy the videos chronicling our adventure overlanding Africa in a Land Rover Defender to Save Wildlife. From South Africa to Kenya and back. Our quest to meet and help people saving African animals. Along the way we see some awesome wildlife, have some wild experiences and even get stuck for two weeks in the…

Update on Five Wildlife Heroes to Watch This Year 2018-Part 1

Jul 29, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: Animal Poaching, elephant, Human Wildlife Conflict, Human Wildlife Conflict, lion, Nikela Blog, Pangolin, vulture, Wildlife Trafficking Tagged: anti-poaching, elephant poachers, human-wildlife conflict, lights save lions, Lynn Clifford, Moses Arineitwe, Philipo Ormorijei, Silke von Eynern

Back in January 2018 we invited you to watch Five Wildlife Heroes making a difference for African animals. From saving wild lions from irate farmers in Tanzania to protecting elephants and their forest in Malawi. Much has been accomplished, some has been lost, and many have helped. But more is still needed to keep the poachers at bay and to reduce the human wildlife conflicts. Back in January we told you, that it’s not the big organizations Nikela seeks out, but the small ones run by amazing individuals that we consider wildlife heroes. Remember, we’ve personally met each of them….

Preparing to Overland Africa to save wildlife from South Africa to Ethiopia and back

Jul 17, 2018 · by Wildlife Margrit · In: #NikelaAfrica, Land Rover, Living in a Landy, Nikela Blog Tagged: 2018-2019, Land Rover, South Africa to Ethiopia, Traveling Africa

Today we begin our eight month journey. We fly from Dallas Texas in the USA to Doha Qatar in the Middle East on to Johannesburg, South Africa. The entire journey will take about 30 hours. This is about preparing to overland Africa 2018-2019. Why do we do this? In our small way we’re about helping people saving wildlife. Preparing to overland Africa to save wildlife in our old Land Rover requires a few things: Like securing a carnet de passage for border crossings (sort of a vehicle passport), a Comesa (third party auto insurance), updated vehicle registration, buying hard to…

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It takes patience to fly cheaply to Africa to start our Overlanding Adventure in 2018

Update on Seven Wildlife Heroes to Watch This Year 2018 Part 2

Overlanding Africa in a Land Rover Defender to Save Wildlife VIDEO PLAYLIST 2016-2017

Update on Five Wildlife Heroes to Watch This Year 2018-Part 1

Preparing to Overland Africa to save wildlife from South Africa to Ethiopia and back

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